Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:54:59 -0500 Reply-To: Robert Ringler Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: Free: 22,038 word "yard list" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Harry, Please send me your latest Rigby update. Same address as before. Many thanks. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@COMPUSERVE.COM> To: Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:34 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Free: 22,038 word "yard list" > Gratis copies: 42 page, heavily-annotated bird list. > > This document analyzes significant bird records at the Armistead family > place, Rigby's Folly, our vacation and spiritual home since the early > 1920's, on the Choptank River. Daily checklists have been kept every year > since 1953 including bandings on c. 20 of those years. I'm happy to send a > copy to all interested (allow 1 month). Just give me your mailing address. > This latest printing includes records through January 2001. > > I have not yet completed analysis of all bandings nor have I finished going > through my diary but all significant records are nevertheless in place. > > Big Days have been done every month of the year. 103 species have been > banded. 69 species have been detected breeding. > > Please "order" your copy before February 1 so I do not have to make the > trip to Staples more than once to get 'em run off. > > "Birds of Rigby's Folly, a Chesapeake Bay farm in Talbot County: an > annotated checklist and regional ornithology including seasonal status and > abundance, maxima, banding data, breeding records, general commentary, and > colloquial names." > > This is intended to be an appendix to a book I am writing on birding as > well as the natural history of and my experiences on the Eastern Shore, > centered on our property. So far I've completed 22 chapters totalling > 111,000 words. > > Hope you enjoy it and find it of interest. If you look it over you could > do me a great favor: let me know if you find inconsistencies or mistakes. > Thank you. > > Best to all and blockbuster birding to you: Harry Armistead, 523 E. Durham > St., Philadelphia, PA 19119. 215-248-4120. 74077.3176@compuserve.com. > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================